Improvement in show-boxes for cigars



UNITEDSTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

JEREMIAH CASEY, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOW-BOXES FOR CIGARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,112, dated August5. 1879; application filed I January 25, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JEREMIAH CASEY, of Binghamton, in the county ofBroome and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Cigar-Boxes, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a partof the same.

The nature of my invention consists, in combination with the box, ofelastic strips connected with a central partition and follower,

and for retail use is made larger than the or- B is the partition, whichis dinary cigar-box. rabbet-jointed in the sides at the center of thebox. This partition has notches a a, for the reception and passage ofelastic strips 0 c, which also pass through corresponding notches in theends of the followers D D, each compartment-follower having a separateelastic connection with the partition B, so that when the box ispartially filled the cigars will present the same attractive and regularappearance as when first placed in position, as shown by Figs. 1 and 2in the drawings. The central position of the partition B allows of amore equal tension of the spring-strips when the box is filled. For asmaller sample-box the partition may be dispensed with by attaching theends of the strips 0 to one end of the box. There is a screw-button, b,attached to the follower, which passes through an opening in the end ofthe box, by which the follower is prevented from movement by thereaction of the spring while placing the cigars in position.

When the box is filled the follower is drawn to the end, as shown inFig. 1. The button I) is then turned to hold it in place while thecigars are being placed with their clipped ends down. The followeristhen detached,and the cigars securely clamped by the reaction of thesprings, thus retaining them in an upright, convenient, and attractiveposition until their entire removal from the box.

I do not claim, broadly, the retention of the cigars in a verticalcompact position as they diminish in the box, for I am aware thatcabinets having drawers with glass fronts, so as to enable braids to beseen in a vertical position, and automatically kept in systematic orderby the use of coil-springs arranged in a peculiar manner adapted to saidcabinets, are now innse. 1 therefore confine myself to the followingclaim.

I claim- In combination with the box A, having two compartments, thepartition B, follower l), springs or elastic strips 0, and button I),all constructed substantially as herein shown and described, and for thepurpose set forth.

JEREMIAH CASEY.

Witnesses:

P. 1?. ROGERS, B. S. OURRAN.

